Canadian Winter – One

Back for my most recent blog post after a prolonged break from the OC scene, I bring to you some fun winter air testing. I used the same setup as previously. This mainly consists of my trusty Phenom II 955 X4 BE, Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P, and Ballistix D9GTS 2GB DDR3 set.

Ahh, the familiar feeling of Canadian winter. A dreaded feeling for most, but hey, I’m an overclocker……and I like cold weather for one purpose….

As some of you may know, I had been struggling to break the SuperPi 1M 16 second barrier using the Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Least efficient board in 1m testing) configured in an air setup. However, this is no typical air setup…..but it finally got the job done. The air ambient was around -8C to -10C.

There are chips that are capable of doing this without such cold ambient air temperatures. Mine is obviously not one of them as seen in this test. The Gigabyte board requires at least around 4.3GHz core speed to break 16 seconds whereas many other board are capable of this at 4.26-4.28GHz.

After that, I decided to do a little CineBench run. This was an untuned run. Also note it is in 32-bit windows.

Last but not least, I saved a validation of a 4.452GHz suicide. However, being away from all the updates, I neglected the fact that my CPU-Z was not up to date. This resulted in my beloved 4.452GHz dump to go to waste. Ah well.

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Awww…shame about the dump Slappa. But nice results none the less. It’s always fun doing some air overclocking at standard room temp and then comparing it to outside winter temp to see how the chips scale. =)